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A world-renowned, four-time Grammy nominee, Anderson was raised in Houston, Texas, before her family moved to Seattle, in 1944, where she attended Garfield High School. She soon fell in with the Jackson Street jazz crowd and was headlining the breakfast show at the 411 club in 1946, when she was still a teenager. The following year she toured with Los Angeles band leadeer Johnny Otis, followed by Lionel Hampton. In 1958, Mercury Records brought out her album debut, “Hot Cargo,” which netted rave reviews in Time magazine the jazz magazine, Down Beat. Anderson made six albums for Mercury, but her career faded and in 1966 she retired for 10 years. In 1976, bassist Ray Brown and Seattle Post-Intelligencer jazz critic Maggie Hawthorn encouraged her to get back in the game, and she began recording a series of successful albums for Concord Jazz, appearing at festivals all over the world.
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